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Spirited_smartsB830
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June 5, 2013
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Unable to publish to facebook, error: "no facebook album assigned to collection"

  • June 5, 2013
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The album is created in facebook, but I am unable to publish any photos to it. Publishing to already existing albums works just fine. This is lightroom 4.4 on windows 7.

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    AnchorageSusan
    Participant
    June 6, 2013

    Same problem here with Mac OS X. Maddening.

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    macallf
    Participant
    June 6, 2013

    I'm having the same kind of problems, but LR reports that it cannot retrieve album information. I cannot create new collections, I can't edit current collections, publish new images to current collections etc! (Album list is empty!!!)

    This started happening yesterday and has been working with LR 4.4 with no problems 'til that time, which, as you know, is the day ater the dreaded FB Tuesday update.

    As a side note JF's facebook plugin still works! But I believe there must be some change to FB API that LR just can't handle!

    P.S. It doesn't work in LR 5 beta either!

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    RonBoyd
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    June 6, 2013

    My solution is to create a new collection each time I want to post to Facebook.

    1. Right click on the Facebook Service and choose "Edit settings..."

    2. Click on the "Plug-in Manager..." button.

    3. Highlight "Facebook" in right-hand column and click on "Plug-in Author Tools." Click on "Reload Plug-in." Click on "Done."

    4. Fill in "Description." Click on "Authorize on Facebook." Click on "OK." (If Internet Explorer throws up a Security message, just OK it.)

    5. At "After authorizing with the web browser, continue here...," click "Done."

    6. Click on "Save." (Sometimes the "Save" button takes a long time to activate.)

    7. You can now go to the Facerbook Service and create a collection.

    If you are not all wore out after all that, you can now use the Facebook "Publish" feature again. (I can't confirm but suspect it would be for a one-time use and creating another collection would require jumping though the same hoops.)

    Additional note: After "Saving," a strange message pops up stating "You have changed the settings for this publish connection. Do you want to mark all [212] photos in this connection to be re-published, or leave them as they are now." I have no clue what that means so I opt for the (I hope) safest option, "Leave As-Is."

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    macallf
    Participant
    June 6, 2013

    Thanks @RonBoyd, but that does not work, already tried! (After waiting for 30mins for the Save button to become active, which it never did, I gave up)

    Problem is it cant authorise with fb or return an album list, even if you try to create a new album, it is not returned by facebook. As said, this has happened after an infamous Facebook Tuesday (4th June) night update.

    This has worked, although not flawlessly, for months and only stopped working on Wed 5 June 2013 and others have reported the same problem on the sme day!

    It's facebook that has changed and the LR plugin can no longer retrieve authorisation or album lists to update!

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    Spirited_smartsB830Author
    Participant
    June 6, 2013

    Found a work-around, but it's a bit involved, and probably voids the warranty. If you edit the lightroom catalog using an sqlite editor (I used http://sqliteman.com/) you can manually link the lightroom published collection with the facebook album id (this is the part that is currently failing to happen automatically).

    1. Get the facebook album id from the url.

         For example, if the url for your album is https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200618277313178.1073741833.1047164390&type=1&l=ec84f7cc8a then the album id will be 10200618277313178

    2. Update the published collection table with this album id:

         update aglibrarypublishedcollection set remoteCollectionId = '10200618277313178', publishedUrl='https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200618277313178.1073741833.1047164390&type=1&l=ec84f7cc8a' where name = 'Ocean City June 2013';

    After that, you will be able to publish photos in this collection. Note, this will have to be done for *every* new collection that has this problem, until Adobe fixes their facebook plugin. It does *not* have to be done every time you want to publish additional photos in an already fixed collection.

    Hope this helps.

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    RonBoyd
    Known Participant
    June 6, 2013

    This (Facebook issue caused by the "upgrade" to v4.4) has been a tremendous disappointment for me. Do a search for other threads that mention this. I am hoping that v5.0 fixes that... whenever it is released to us mere mortals.

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    Metal Aria
    Participant
    June 6, 2013

    Make that +1 more.... still frustrated that the last update broke my previous Collections.  Now I can't publish new ones?

    Hey ADOBE... how about making nice with the Facebook API and getting this resolved?  Pretty please?  Thanks.

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    Greg McAfee
    Participant
    June 6, 2013

    Doesn't work for me either.  Same error message.  Lightroom 4.4 + Mac OS X.  When I try to edit Facebook settings from Lightroom, I get another error message stating Lightroom couldn't get my Facebook information.  I wonder if Facebook changed their API?

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